The One: The Life and Music of James Brown by RJ Smith Sunday, April 1st: Black Grooves (monthly e-zine) Monday, April 2nd: A Bookish Affair . . . The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Monday, April 2nd: Book Snob Tuesday, April 3rd: Brandi Reads Wednesday, April 4th: A Bookish Affair Thursday, April 5th: Man of La Book . […]
Archives for March 2012
Devon Pearse, author of A Lighter Shade of Gray, on tour June 2012
About A Lighter Shade of Gray • Paperback: 470 pages • Publisher: Neverland Publishing Company (May 1, 2010) What does it feel like to stare into the face of madness? Or to anticipate your own? Would you drive away your only love? Could you pretend it didn’t matter? How far would you go to protect […]
Pamela Haag, author of Marriage Confidential, on tour June 2012
About Marriage Confidential • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 5, 2012) With bracing candor, Marriage Confidential take us inside a world where romantic ideas have given way to a “post-romantic” mood and a fair number of marriages end up “semi-happy.” It’s a world where the husbands of “workhorse wives” pursue the Having […]
Alafair Burke, author of Long Gone and Angel’s Tip, on tour May/June 2012
About Long Gone • Paperback:384 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (May 22, 2012) After months of struggling, Alice Humphrey finally lands her dream job managing a trendy new Manhattan art gallery. According to Drew Campbell, the well-heeled corporate representative who hires her, the gallery is a passion project for its anonymous, wealthy owner. Everything is […]
Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins, on tour June 2012
About Beautiful Ruins • Hardcover:352 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 12, 2012) The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea—blue as his eyes—and sees a vision: a slender blonde woman, a vision in […]
Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis, on tour April 2012
About Out of the Silent Planet • File Size: 365 KB • Publisher: HarperOne (April 3, 2012) Just as readers have been transfixed by the stories, characters, and deeper meanings of Lewis’s timeless tales in The Chronicles of Narnia, most find this same allure in his classic Space Trilogy. In these fantasy stories for adults, […]
Debbie Ford, author of Courage, on tour May/June 2012
About Courage • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 24, 2012) “In this insightful book, my friend and colleague Debbie Ford has detailed a very inspiring and pragmatic blueprint for living a courageous life…. In between the covers of the book you hold in your hand is a thorough delineation of all that you […]
Kate White, author of The Sixes, on tour June 2012
About The Sixes • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (June 5, 2012) Right after Phoebe Hall’s long-term boyfriend breaks off their relationship, she’s falsely accused of plagiarizing her latest bestselling celebrity biography. Looking for a quiet place to put her life back together, she jumps at the offer to teach in a small […]
Steve Coll, author of Private Empire, on tour May 2012
About Private Empire • Hardcover: 704 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (May 1, 2012) Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll goes deep inside ExxonMobil Corp, the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States In Private Empire, Steve Coll investigates the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, revealing the true extent of its power. […]
Katherine Webb, author of The Unseen, on tour May/June 2012
About The Unseen • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (May 22, 2012) From Katherine Webb, the author of the acclaimed international bestseller The Legacy, comes a compelling tale of love, deception, and illusion A vicar with a passion for nature, the Reverend Albert Canning leads a happy existence with his naive wife, […]